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This article showcases our top picks for the best Los Angeles based Music Based companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Music Based industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Los Angeles Music Based Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Napster
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Napster enables users to discover, listen, and share music files with others.
Stem Disintermedia
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Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings.
Pearpop
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Pearpop the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists.
BeatBread
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BeatBread is a platform that provides funding to musicians while allowing them to choose their partners and retain complete ownership.
Output
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Output develops innovative software and gear for musicians, composers, producers and sound designers.
Unblocked
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Unblocked focuses on transforming the future of music and entertainment.
tonebase
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tonebase gives you access to educational content produced by the world’s greatest musicians and music educators.
Relativity Media
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Relativity Media is focused on producing and distributing content in the United States and internationally.
ICM Partners
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ICM Partners is one of the world’s largest talent and literary agencies, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C.
SaveLive
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SaveLive is a venture aimed a throwing a financial lifeline to at-risk music venues.
Soundmint
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Soundmint is a generative platform for music NFTs.
Encore Music Technologies
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Encore is an interactive live music mobile-based platform aiming to help artists monetize their connections with fans.
Orfium
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Award winning, high growth music tech company providing software solutions that maximize the commercial value of global copyrights
Laylo
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Laylo helps creators connect with and monetize their super fans through live ticketed digital experiences.
geojam
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Geojam is the ultimate social media platform for music.
NoCap
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NoCap is a platform that allows artists to produce, promote, and broadcast live shows and unique fan experiences to a global audience.
Dash Radio
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Dash Radio is a digital radio broadcasting platform that reinvents radio for the digital world.
Rooam
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A contactless payment solution for the hospitality, sports, and entertainment industry
Audience Republic
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Audience Republic is an all-in-one CRM & marketing platform for events, venues & artists
Audio Up Media
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Audio Up is building an ecosystem of IP where every single song, podcast, and audio marketing asset becomes much more.
Vezt
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Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Vezt lets music fans share ownership with artists in their favorite songs.
Tend
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Tend is the premier marketplace for hospitality staffing
Spotlite
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Spotlite offers a direct to fan app that caters to the artist.
Vurbl
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Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user generated audio.
FanSifter
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FanSifter is a fan data management platform to help rights-holders in music, entertainment, and sports increase sales of tickets, music, etc
Shoelace Records
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Shoelace Records is a music publishing company that was acquired by UMG in March, 2022. (Twitter: @ShoelaceRecords)
KAI Media
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NEXT GENERATION ENTERTAINMENT FOR GLOBAL K-POP[CULTURE] FANDOMS
GPU AUDIO
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GPU AUDIO Turn any graphics card that most PC and laptop users have into a source of unlimited audio processing power.
VOX
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VOX – VOX Music Player and the unlimited cloud-based music storage Loop.
Jammcard
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Jammcard is a private network for musicians, producers, directors, and composers that work with artists in the world.
All Def Digital
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ALL DEF DIGITAL is a premium, multi-platform digital media company and entertainment hub
Revry, Inc.
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Revry is the premiere digital media network for the inclusive 21st century queer community.
Beach Whiskey
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Beach Whiskey is a naturally flavored American whiskey.
Pitch Inc.
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Pitch is an AI startup that develops a mobile, voice-operated sing-along coach.
Candle Media
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Candle Media is the the production & distribution of video content including movies, TV, music, animation & others.
Reel Mood
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Reel Mood is a decentralized live stream music platform that lives on Blockchain Technology.
Bquate
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Bquate is a full-stack SaaS music platform and an API-based solution for independent music companies.
Indiefy
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Indiefy is a community of independent artists that offers services like digital distribution, analytics and promo tools to their artists.
Matter
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Matter is the first market network focused on musicians. We help creatives leverage their community and content to make more $ from commerce
Pixelynx
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Pixelynx develops technology which is focused on blurring lines between music, blockchain and gaming.
DanceOn
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DanceOn creates the most buzzworthy music and pop culture programming for millennials seeking entertainment everywhere.
Techstars Music
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Techstars Music is a startup accelerator run by Techstars and leading companies from the global music business.
Shots Studios
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Shots Studios is a Los Angeles-based, data-driven entertainment company that produces online comedy and music videos.
Riptide Music Group
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Riptide Music Group is a “sync-flavored” global publishing administration company focusing on the worldwide synchronization of music.
Omnia Media
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Omnia Media is a digital studio that creates original content with its talent network which does 2B+ views/month in Gaming and DIY.
Younk
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Younk is the world’s first community music label on blockchain.
Busker
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The best live musicians from around the world. Browse, listen, like, book.
Powerhouse Capital
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Powerhouse Capital, LA based venture fund dedicated to investment opportunities in technology, media, entertainment & interactive gaming.
ENABLE
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Artist Incubation, Development, ANR, Music Distribution, Marketing, Artist Management, Talent Acquisition & Development.
Ambidio
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Ambidio is a sound company that provides sound entertainment to audiences using a technology that creates surround sound-like experience.
JET Management
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JET Management build career artists, release great music, and produce world class live entertainment.
ISINA
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is the world’s first decentralized online platform for searching and developing musical talent throughout the globe.
Streo
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Streo allows artists to live stream, archive, and distribute their gigs thereby creating their own online music library for paid access.
Audience
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Audience allows curators to earn money by building algorithmic robot DJs that play new artists music.
Three Six Zero
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Three Six Zero is an international management and entertainment company at the forefront of music, film, television and digital content.
TunesMap
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TunesMap is a Los Angeles-based startup dedicated to helping you interact with the world around your favorite music.
Eyellusion
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A startup focused on hologram concerts featuring digital recreations of certain deceased music artists
CreateTV, INC
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Create Studios is one of the world’s fastest growing media companies. Create is a leader in music and video among millennials.
Rock-It Cargo
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Rock-It Cargo provides freight forwarding and logistics services through air, land and sea for corporate events, live shows and more.
sona
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sona is the first music app designed for anxiety relief.
Veeps
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Veeps is the livestream concert platform for the music industry.
Revolt TV
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Revolt TV is a broadcast and media company that focuses on engaging to millennials and gen Z audiences and features about Hip Hop culture.
Restless Nites
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A curated events discovery platform with a mobile first ticketing solution.
Create Music Group
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Create Music Group is a music and media technology company
Festiie
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Festiie is the offline GPS tracker for festival-goers that fits in the palm of your hand and transmits over a mile away.
Crush Ventures
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Early stage venture fun(d), a division of Crush Music.
Lara LLC
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Lara offers a rap battle app where rappers can use this platform to grow in their rap skills.
TAO Network
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The TAO Network, a blockchain-based content distribution platform for the music industry
Grüv
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An online SaaS music platform that unites artists, curators, & audiences.
Repost Network
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Repost Network operates as a soundCloud focused music distributor allowing creators to make a living through their audiences online.
Small Demons
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Small Demons cross-references people, places, songs, and other entities mentioned in books, allowing users to connect between texts.
Vivid Entertainment LLC
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Vivid Entertainment LLC, an adult film company.
Insomniac Events
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Insomniac, Inc. is an Entertainment company based out of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, United States probably best known for promoting EDC
YourListen.com
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YourListen.com is a social music and audio platform allowing users to upload, listen, discover and share content without limits.
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
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UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is “the first school of music to be established in the University of California system.
JibJab Bros Studios
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JibJab creates content and tools that help people be funny in their digital lives.
Easy Tempo
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Easy Tempo is a music company that composes, produces and arranges music for records, films and commercial environments.
Fanswell
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DIY marketplace for booking performers, experts and personalities.
Delair Studios
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The best immersive sound for entertainment.
Windbreak
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Windbreak is a media holding company engagaged in film and television.
XIX Entertainment
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XIX Entertainment is an entertainment studio led by Simon Fuller which promotes new musical talent.
Fanded
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Fanded is a marketplace for fans to invest in their favorite artists and share in their success directly.
The List App
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The List App is a new way to create and discover lists about anything and everything.
Slingshot
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Creating a new AI-driven, artist-centered music industry
Dirt
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Dirt is an online web-based portal that offers user-generated content related to the celebrity and entertainment spaces.
Respondent Records
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Respondent Records is a full-service independent company that offers record label, recording studio, and production services for artists.
Hey Wordy
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Hey Wordy is an entertainment company that produces animated television series created to educate children.
SmashHaus
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SmashHaus is SAAS Web 3.0 connecting a global content creator community with media companies seeking audio, video, and image-based assets.
Super Hi-Fi
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Super Hi-Fi is a sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) platform that delivers innovative audio solutions.
FBE
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FBE has pioneered the digital revolution for over a decade.
Global Music Rights
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Global Music Rights is a music rights management company that focused on licensing, surveying and distributing public performance royalties.
Gemtracks
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Gemtracks is a website that provides bands, singers and songwriters with song instrumental backing tracks.
Mandalay Entertainment
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Mandalay Entertainment Group is a multimedia entertainment vehicle in motion pictures, television, sports entertainment and new media.
